Chelostoma ( Chelostoma ) lucens (Benoist, 1928)

Müller, Andreas, Pisanty, Gideon & Dorchin, Achik, 2025, Western Palaearctic Chelostoma bees of the subgenus Chelostoma (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species, Zootaxa 5717 (3), pp. 329-369 : 342

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scientific name

Chelostoma ( Chelostoma ) lucens (Benoist, 1928)
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Chelostoma ( Chelostoma) lucens (Benoist, 1928) View in CoL

Heriades lucens Benoist, 1928: 418 View in CoL . Type material: Lectotype ♀, by designation of G. van der Zanden (unpublished), “ Asie mineure: Taurus ” ( Turkey), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris.

Literature records. BULGARIA: Blagoewgrad: Sandanski ( Ebmer 2009, as C. transversum View in CoL ). LEBANON: Mount Lebanon: Maaser Al Chouf ( Boustani et al. 2021); North: SE Quemmamine ( Boustani et al. 2021). TURKEY: Antalya, Diyarbakır, Mersin, Muğla ( Ebmer 2009; Özbek 2011). The specimens of C. lucens View in CoL observed by Ebmer (2009) on flowers of Legousia pentagonia View in CoL ( Campanulaceae View in CoL ) on Samos (Greece) refer to C. ( Gyrodromella) aegaeicum View in CoL .

New records. BULGARIA: Blagoewgrad: Melnik , 4.6.1984, 1♀, 1♂ (leg. B. Karas) ; Chaskowo: 30 km SW Svilengrad , 41°43′N / 26°02′E, 550 m, 21.06.08, 1♀ (leg. M. Halada, Z. Halada) GoogleMaps . GREECE: Aegean Islands: Rhodes, Archangelos , 100 m, 8.5.2005, 1♀ (leg. A. Müller) ; Samos, Manolates 25.4.1977, 1♂ (leg. H. Teunissen) . ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: Haifa District: Yagur , 32.74°N / 35.07°E, 24.4.2015, 1♀ (leg. G. Pisanty) GoogleMaps ; Northern District: Yiftah , 30.3.2016, 1♂ (leg. O. Winberger) . JORDAN: Ajloun: 10 km N Ajloun , 23.4.2007, 1♀, 2♂ (leg. C. Praz, C. Sedivy, A. Müller) . SYRIA: Al-Quneitra: Golan Heights, Nahal Zawitan , 32.945°N / 35.689°E, 168 m, 23.4.2019, 1♀ (leg. A. Dorchin) GoogleMaps . TURKEY: Antalya: 15 km E Kumluca , 36°23.652′N / 30°24.201′E, 540 m, 28.5.2002, 1♀ (leg. B. Degen) GoogleMaps ; Denizli: Pamukkale , 1.6.1966, 1♀ (leg. J. Schmidt) ; Isparta: Eğirdir, Kovada Gölu , 22.5.1988, 2♂ (leg. N. Mohr) ; Manisa: 35 km SSE Salıhlı , 38°20′N / 28°24′E, 900 m, 30.6.2006, 1♀ (leg. J. Halada) GoogleMaps ; Mersin: Uzuncaburç , 30 km N Silifke, 28.5.1996, 3♀ (leg. M. Halada) ; Muğla: Bafa lake , 19.4.1996, 3♂ (leg. P. Hartmann) .

Distribution. Bulgaria, Greece ( Aegean Islands), Turkey, Levant ( Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Jordan). C. lucens has not yet been reliably recorded in mainland Greece.

Pollen hosts. Oligolectic on Dipsacoideae (A. Müller personal observation), which is confirmed by A.W. Ebmer (personal communication), who observed many specimens of C. lucens exclusively visiting Scabiosa on Samos in spring 2014.

Nesting biology. Unknown.

Note. C. “lucens ” in Mavromoustakis (1951) and Varnava et al. (2020) is C. comosum Müller.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Chelostoma

Loc

Chelostoma ( Chelostoma ) lucens (Benoist, 1928)

Müller, Andreas, Pisanty, Gideon & Dorchin, Achik 2025
2025
Loc

C. ( Gyrodromella ) aegaeicum

Muller 2012
2012
Loc

Heriades lucens

Benoist 1928: 418
1928
Loc

C. lucens

Benoist 1928
1928
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